It's raining accolades and awards in the Khan backyard. '3 Idiots' raked in a whopping Rs 382 crore worldwide (grossed Rs 100 crore within four days of its release!).

Even as Aamir Khan's news about Robert Redford extending him a personal invitation to attend his plush party, and the excitement over his 'Peepli Live' making it to the Sundance Film Festival and Berlin Film Festivals has barely died down … a national glory chugs right in!

Aamir Khan will soon be lavished with the 'Padma Bhushan' …

"When I received this wonderful news, my mother's smiling face flashed in my mind," declared Khan in a SMS message from Utah, US where he is presently attending the Sundance Festival.

Expressing a twinge of regret over not being in India in person, the 44 year old Khan, already a Padma Shri recipient, declared to the scribe tribe, "Firstly, my film 'Peepli Live' receives a superb response at the Film Festival and then the news about my Padma Bhushan reached me. I only wish I was back home right now. I would like to thank God for all these happy moments."

Incidentally, Khan shares the Padma honour with A R Rehman, the redoubtable colossus of Indian film music. Two much, what say?

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Aamir Khan has given up on drinking and smoking forever. This is in the wake of his New Year resolutions. It's reported that Aamir Khan has vowed never to touch alcohol and he recently showed it at the success party of his film 3 IDIOTS.

Not only that. Even at the engagement ceremony of his nephew Imran Khan, Aamir refrained from any intoxicating drink and refused to gulp the champagne that was being served as part of the celebrations.

Now, Aamir will stick to Limbu pani. He says that he dislikes feeling unfit. Both alcohol and smoking make him feel so and now he has decided to steer clear of them.

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